I have had several careers, as befits someone born as long ago as I was. After earning a couple of degrees, teaching and then editing trade publications, I attended Philadelphia College of Art in the mid '70's. Dan Jackson was there, inspiring everyone he taught with his visions of form in wood; the fine craft revival in wood was just gathering steam. I was not the only one who left PCA determined to make his/her own way. I opened a studio in the Northeast and spent the next 25 years designing and building cabinetry and furniture. The time came for evolution, if not total change.

My mother had a long career as a teacher and studio potter and I developed rudimentary throwing skills under her guidance.

So the form of the pot has been with me for a while. I have always turned components for my furniture, so it has been natural to progress to lathe work exclusively. From 2001 onward, I studied with Beth Ireland, took David Ellsworth's weekend intensive, joined local woodturning organizations, read and messed around a lot on my own. I am now a full time turner; I sell my work through various galleries and craft shows from West Palm Beach to Chicago.

Just as my furniture involved shaping wood that was cut and assembled, my bowl forms involve a great deal of cutting and assembling before shaping. My current interest is what I would call horizontal or lateral segmentation. I assemble various exotics into rings and then fit the rings inside or outside each other to create a range of effects. They are two-dimensional graphics or three-dimensional forms depending on how the rings are manipulated. I have learned to turn the forms on multiple centers as the assembly proceeds. The asymmetry that results is Escher like.

PUBLICATIONS

Middlesex Beat, November 2003
"Charles Faucher: Manual Intelligence"

New Hampshire Magazine, January 2005
"Super Bowls"

American Woodturner, Fall 2006
"Segmented Surprises"

EXHIBITIONS

Gallery 401, Providence, RI
"New Work"
December 2003

Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield CT
"Innovative Perspectives in Turning"
June 19-August 7, 2005

delMano Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
"Turned and Sculptured Wood, 2007"
Jully 28-August 25, 2007